How to Use orifice in a Sentence

orifice

noun

• The moist orifice of a wound opened up and took the form of a small bullet hole.
  — Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 3 July 2020
• Use the red straw extension again to blast clean the orifices in the float bowl’s screw.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• The beads puddle and pool over the grains of warmed concrete while the secrets flee a widened orificein the face.
  — David Roderick, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• Near the bottom of the fleshy mass, a large, pink orifice emerges from tufts of fuzzy hair with pins jutting out around it.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2017
• The heat exchanger and the orifice, which controls the flow of gas, may also need cleaning.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
• The mouth is never a mere orifice, but the seat of an individual’s voice.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
• Both sexes have cloacas, the anal orifice, an all-purpose vent.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• However, in Dune: Part Two, small orifices of some description can be seen beneath the scales of the worms when they are pulled up by hooks.
  — Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
• In another version of the story, Athena just walked out of Zeus’ head through some orifice or other.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• The freedom of the one existed at the price of the oppression of everyone else, of their reduction, in fact, to mere orifices.
  — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
• Felching To felch is to suck up semen out of an orifice (using a straw is optional).
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 15 May 2018
• Unlike the hemipenes of males, the researchers found, the hemiclitores remain inside the body and can be found behind the single orifice, or cloaca, along the tail.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• There shall be a natural force causing the water to flow to the surface through a natural orifice.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2017
• Germar points out that its rounded corners means it can even be stowed in a bodily orifice.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2014
• This is the kind of movie where, at any moment, the editor might throw in an insert shot of an oozing orifice, keeping viewers on their toes.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Trails meander around three lakes and along a creek to Running Eagle Falls, which gushes through a giant stone orifice.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Hardcore, objects-stuck-in-a-woman's-every-orifice porn.
  — David Gambacorta, Esquire, 16 Aug. 2016
• McCarthy points to one drawing from 1658 that shows a giant sea monster with two orifices on its head spewing water.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• But then weeping pustules appeared all over its body, and fluids poured forth from every orifice.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• The mouth was cone-shaped with curved, hooked spines around the entire orifice leading the study authors to believe that C. falcatus fed by sifting through sediment in the ocean.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2019
• Amid the swirls and eddies are suggestions of bodily orifices.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices.
  — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2019
• The final shot shows Caleb screaming as flies crawl over his face, presumably seeking an orifice through which to enter the body and assume control.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
• Gases that build up after death can be expelled through any orifice in the body, including the mouth, and may carry infectious virus, the researchers said.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Ebola kills about half its victims, often through horrific bleeding from all the body’s orifices.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• The power outlet was similar to the cigarette lighter orifice.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2017
• After visiting this beach’s miles of soft, white sand, you’re guaranteed to have granules in every orifice.
  — Patrick Clair, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
• Bleed Paths: Small orifices (006) with one-way check valves allow fluid to bypass the compression spool valve during rebound and vice versa.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
• Trees, of course, wouldn’t fare too well near Old Faithful’s orifice if the geyser was regularly showering 200-plus-degree water into the air and onto the ground.
  — Mike Koshmrl, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• An electrical pulse heats the resistor, which flash-boils a thin layer of the ink, forming a rapidly expanding vapor bubble that pushes a droplet of ink out through the orifice.
  — Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024